I figured out the issue with the Radeon 7500. You need to have a monitor hooked up to the DVI port on the card to see any DirectFB applications :-) For some reason, you won't see anything on the CRT port.
Adam On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Adam K Kirchhoff wrote: > > Quick update :-) I took a closer look, and when running any of the > directfb examples on my Radeon 7500, the power light on my monitor dims > like it does when DPMS puts the display to sleep or the monitor is being > told to change to a frequency it doesn't support (which is really odd > because this is the same monitor that worked with the original radeon). > > Also, does anyone know what happened to the archives of the mailing lists? > They seem to have stopped in February... > > Adam > > On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Adam K Kirchhoff wrote: > > > > > Just so you know, I tried running some of the DirectFB examples with one > > of the original Radeon 64 Meg cards and everything ran flawlessly. > > > > However, when I tried to run them on a Radeon 7500, the screen would blank > > but nothing would show up on the display :-) df_dok would show benchmark > > results after I let it run for a couple minutes, so it obviously thinks > > that it's running, but nothing is showing up :-) > > > > Adam > > > > On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Denis Oliver Kropp wrote: > > > > > Quoting Adam K Kirchhoff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > > > > > Can anyone tell me where DirectFB is in terms of support the Radeon > > > > framebuffer? I see that it's not listed on the modules page, which kind > > > > of surprised me :-) > > > > > > The Radeon is similar to the Rage128. I know one person with a builtin > > > Radeon (Apple Powerbook) examining the differences by playing around > > > with the Rage128 driver. > > > > > > The Rage128 driver will be rewritten for Rage128 and Radeon. > > > These cards support all functions provided by DirectFB (like Matrox). > > > > > > I don't know when development of the new driver starts but I will > > > remind these two guys (Andi and Prom) very often ;) > > > > > > I would be very happy about fully supported ATI cards but I personally > > > don't have enough time to do it on my own. > > > > > > -- > > > Best regards, > > > Denis Oliver Kropp > > > > > > .------------------------------------------. > > > | DirectFB - Hardware accelerated graphics | > > > | http://www.directfb.org/ | > > > "------------------------------------------" > > > > > > Convergence GmbH > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > "unsubscribe directfb-users" as subject. > > -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe directfb-users" as subject.
